The impact of financial education on adolescents' intertemporal choices.

Luhrmann, Melanie; Serra-Garcia, Marta und Winter, Joachim (2014): The impact of financial education on adolescents' intertemporal choices.

Abstract

We study the impact of financial education on intertemporal choice in adolescence. The program was randomly assigned among high-school students and intertemporal choices were measured using an incentivized experiment. Students who participated in the program display a decrease in time inconsistency; an increase in the allocation of payment to a single payment date, compared to spreading payment across two dates; and increased consistency of choice with the law of demand. These findings suggest that the effect of such educational programs is to increase comprehension and decrease bracketing in intertemporal choice. This working paper was updated in May 2015.

• Dokumententyp: Paper
• Publikationsform: Preprint
• Keywords: Household Saving; Personal Finance (D14) Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving (D91) Field Experiments (C93)
• Fakultät: Volkswirtschaft > Lehrstühle > Seminar für empirische Wirtschaftsforschung
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
• Sprache: Englisch